Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood up for Mississippi" at Ole Miss, so wasn't it about time Mississippi stood up for him? For comic relief, he threw in a surefire laugh-getter: "You know what the N.A.A.C.P. stands for: Niggers, alligators apes, coons and possums...
...Arthur Schwartz, is based on the career of Actress Laurette Tay lor. As the young Laurette, Mary Mar tin puts on one of her best and funniest performances, and Laurette's barnstorming early appearances in all manner of creaking melodramas are made-to-order for Mary's comic talents. She plays a frontier mother rescuing her child from a grizzly bear, warbles a ditty from a torture wheel, and as a harem wife be wails...
...best, as in Tales of the South Pacific, Michener evokes a sense of place and exotic atmosphere and, as in the opening pages of Hawaii, comes close to poetry. At his worst, he writes prose comic strips that combine the emotional depth of Mary Worth and the flavor of Terry and the Pirates. Caravans belongs to the latter category...
Will the Careys get the boot when their mysterious absentee landlord discovers that they have been living rent-free in his house all summer? Such a turn of events is unthinkable, and sure enough, nobody thinks of it. Instead, everybody has wholesome fun. Sam, the comic sheep dog, scares prissy Cousin Julia (Deborah Walley) into a conniption; Little Brother cons the barber into shearing off his Buster Brown bangs; there is a lemonade party and a punch-and-pumpkin Halloween housewarming. Burl Ives pipes The Ugly Bug Ball, and a peaceable bestiary of beavers, owls, foxes, deer, spiders, crickets...
...literary side of military life is one too often overlooked. The Defense Department's huge public relations staff, the Steve Canyon comic strip it encourages, and the books it distributes to its troops all attest to the fact that military men recognize the power...